Experience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYlife is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEYGreat is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHuman beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEYWords can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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